Ohio Poetry Association Blog

On Saturday, October 10, 2015, at Otterbein College, Neil Carpathios provided those who attended the OPA quarterly business meeting and workshop an inspiring afternoon of poetry. His focus was on how to make your poems more original, and how to make them stand out in the crowd.  Creating delightful, surprising poetry is something Carpathios does well. He has three books of poems:   Playground of Flesh (Main Street Rag), At the Axis of Imponderables (winner of the Quercus Review Press Book Award), and Beyond the Bones (FutureCycle Press). He also is the author of several award-winning chapbooks and recently was named the winner of the 2015 Slipstream Press Poetry Competition for his collection, The Function of Sadness , which will be published in autumn of 2015.  In keeping with the dictum that says, to be a good writer you must be a good reader, we asked Carpathios to provide us with a list of the ten books he would take with him if he were stranded on a des...

Ohio Poetry Association Quarterly Meeting, featuring George Bilgere A reading and workshop with George Bilgere will take place this Saturday, March 19 at the Bexley Public Library in Columbus. This event is free and open to the public. OPA Business Meeting: 10-11:30 Open-Mic: 11:30-12 Lunch On Your Own: 12-1 Reading and Workshop with George Bilgere: 1-4 Bexley Public Library is located at 2411 E. Main St., Bexley, Columbus, Ohio. For more information, visit https://sites.google.com/a/ohiopoetryassn.com/the-ohio-poetry-association/upcoming-seminars

OPA Quarterly Meeting and Workshop with guest poet Maggie Anderson Saturday, December 18, 2010 Bexley Public Library 2411 E. Main Street Columbus, OH 43209 http://www.bexlib.org/   Maggie Anderson is the author of four books of poetry, including Windfall:  New and Selected Poems , A Space Filled with Moving , and Cold Comfort . She has co-edited several thematic anthologies, including A Gathering of Poets , a collection of poems read at the 20 th anniversary commemoration of the shootings at Kent State University in 1970, as well as Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School and After the Bell:  Contemporary American Prose about School.  Her awards include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, fellowships from the Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania Councils on the Arts, and the Ohioana Library for contributions to the literary arts in Ohio.   The founding director of the Wick Poetry Center and of the Wick Poe...